It was a great week!

What a week! We left Monday and arrived in Las Vegas that afternoon. We spent two days walking the strip and visiting the huge, over-the-top casinos disguised as resorts. On Thursday, the fun began. We boarded a small passenger plane and flew to the Bar10 ranch in the Grand Canyon park. There we rode horses, shot skeet, drove ATVs to the rim of the canyon, and slept in a western style bunkhouse. Friday morning we boarded a helicopter that took us to the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We boarded rafts and traveled some 45 miles with several rapids before stopping for the night. We slept on cots out in the open night air and saw stars that were more vivid than any I had ever seen before. We reboarded the rafts early the next morning and headed downriver. We stopped to climb some rocks to get to a natural spring waterfall in a cave. We braved more rapids and then met with the jet boat that took us to the shore where the bus waited to take us back to Las Vegas. On the road trip back we crossed Hoover Dam. We got to the hotel just in time to shower and get to the Mirage and see the Beatles Love show done by Cirque du Soleil. It was beyond description.

My favorite part? Getting to do all of that with my favorite person in all the world, Carole.